Section 30-913. DESCRIPTION OF THE POWERBALL(R) POWER PLAY PROMOTION AND PRIZE PAYMENT

 POWER PLAY PROMOTION AND PRIZE PAYMENT

 

913.1 The POWERBALL Power Play Promotion ("Power Play") is a limited extension of the POWERBALL game and is conducted in accordance with the POWERBALL game rules and other lottery rules applicable to the POWERBALL game except as may be amended herein. The Executive Director shall determine the starting and ending dates of Power Play. Power Play will offer to the owners of a qualifying play a chance to multiply the amount of any of the eight (8) lowest Set Prizes (the prizes normally paying four dollars ($ 4.00) to $ one millions ($1,000,000)) won in a drawing held during the promotion. The Grand Prize is not a Set Prize and will not be increased.

 

913.2 A qualifying play is any single POWERBALL play for which the player pays an extra dollar for the Power Play option play and which is recorded at the Agency's central computer as a qualifying play.

 

913.3  Except as provided in these rules, a qualifying play which wins one of seven lowest Set Prizes (excluding the Match 5+0 prize) will be multiplied by the number selected, either two, three, four, five or sometimes ten (2, 3, 4, 5 or sometimes 10), in a separate random Power Play drawing announced during the official Powerball drawing show. The ten (10X) multiplier will be available for drawings in which the initially advertised annuitized Grand Prize amount is one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000.00) or less.  The announced Match 5+0 prize, for players selecting the Power Play option, shall be two million dollars ($2,000,000.00) unless a higher limited promotional dollar amount is announced by the Product Group. 

 

913.4Prize Payments.  All Power Play prizes shall be paid in one single payment through the Selling Lottery that sold the winning ticket(s).  A Selling Lottery may begin paying Power Play prizes after receiving authorization to pay from the MUSL central office.

 

 

authority

Law to Legalize Lotteries, Daily Numbers, and Bingo and Raffles for Charitable Purposes in the District of Columbia, effective March 10, 1981 (D.C. Law 3-172; D.C. Official Code §§ 3-1306 and 3-1321 (2012 Repl.)); District of Columbia Financial Responsibility and Management Assistance Authority Order, issued September 21, 1996; Office of the Chief Financial Officer Financial Management Control Order No. 96-22, issued November 18, 1996, and Office of the Chief Financial Officer Financial Management Control Orders No. 97-15, issued May 15, 1997, and No. 96-16 (September 24, 1996); and Office of the Chief Financial Officer Financial Management Control Order No. 15-11, issued April 14, 2015 (appointing Tracey Cohen Interim Executive Director of the District of Columbia Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board).

source

Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 1526 (February 14, 2003); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 52 DCR 7224 (August 5, 2005); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 56 DCR 73 (January 2, 2009); as amended by Emergency and Proposed Rulemaking published at 58 DCR 10801 (December 16, 2011)[EXPIRED]; as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 143, 145 (January 13, 2012); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 62 DCR 13017 (October 2, 2015).